Universal Acceptance (UA) is the cornerstone to a digitally inclusive Internet because it ensures all domain names and email addresses – in any language, script, or new or extended TLD (e.g., .在线, .photography) – are accepted equally by all Internet-enabled applications, devices, and systems.

Achieving UA ensures every person can navigate and communicate on the Internet using their chosen domain names and email addresses that best aligns with users’ interests, business, culture, language, and script.

Most of the world does not speak English as a first language or write it only using letters A-Z, a-z. Only around 36 percent of the world population uses the Latin alphabet. Billions of people prefer to read and write in Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, or other scripts. Many of these multilingual users are currently excluded from experiencing the full benefits of the Internet simply because they cannot use a domain name or email address in their language and script of choice. 

The training is mainly geared to the following audience, but anyone interested can participate: